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Whilst at the Wolves enclosure at Wildwood, Herne Bay, I couldnt not ignore this Robin who was systematically stealing moss from the enclosure for the new nest.
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(Curruca communis - Common Whitethroat)
She was thirsty and just drank
Systematic
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Curruca
Species: communis
Descriptor Latham, 1787
Biometrics
Height: 14 cm
Wingspan: 22 cm.
Weight: 12 to 18 g
Longevity: 9 years
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The dark-eyed junco is a species of junco, a group of small, grayish New World sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable species, much like the related fox sparrow, and its systematics are still not completely untangled. Wikipedia
Species: J. hyemalis
Class: Aves
Nickname: snowbirds nwf.org
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Thanks for all your visits, likes and comments...please note that due to the systematic power cuts that last for 10 hours everyday, I won't be able to visit your streams until tomorrow...appreciating your understanding in advance...blessings!
‘A constant, systematic dissembling is required of the vast majority of us. It’s impossible, without its affecting your health, to show yourself day after day contrary to what you feel, to lay yourself out for what you don’t love, to rejoice over what brings you misfortune . . . Our soul takes up room in space and sits inside us like the teeth in our mouth. It cannot be endlessly violated with impunity.’
-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Today is the 11th day of Valentine's month of February, and I wanted to share my love of curiosity, travel, and research. Of course, picking up the camera has enhanced my curiosity and made me even more aware of my surroundings. Art, too, has enabled me to share my feelings more deeply than by word, which is not one of my strengths
THE JOURNEY | LEA SALONGA | LYRIC VIDEO
Lorna Yumul Santos
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If by Rudyard Kipling
To learn while still a child
What this life is meant to be.
To know it goes beyond myself,
It’s so much more than me.
To overcome the tragedies,
To survive the hardest times.
To face those moments filled with pain,
And still, manage to be kind.
To fight for those who can’t themselves,
To always share my light.
With those who wander in the dark,
To love with all my might.
To still stand up with courage,
Though standing on my own.
To still get up and face each day,
Even when I feel alone.
To try to understand the ones
That no one cares to know.
And make them feel some value.
When the world has let them go.
To be an anchor, strong and true,
That person loyal to the end.
To be a constant source of hope
To my family and my friends.
To live a life of decency,
To share my heart and soul.
To always say I’m sorry
When I’ve harmed both friend and foe.
To be proud of whom I’ve tried to be,
And this life I chose to live.
To make the most of every day
By giving all I have to give.
To me, that’s what this life should be,
To me, that’s what it’s for.
To take what God has given me
And make it so much more
To live a life that matters,
To be someone of great worth.
To love and be loved in return
And make my mark on Earth..
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out.
Charles F. Kettering
Research is something that everyone can do, and everyone ought to do. It is simply collecting information and thinking systematically about it.
Raewyn Connell
Bad news sells papers. It also sells market research.
Byron Sharp
A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
Pico Iyer
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Sainte Augustine
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he comes to see.”
Gilbert K Chesterton
Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.
Jacqueline Boone
An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment.
Sir David Attenborough
Oh, the places you will go.
Dr. Seuss
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
Louis Armstrong
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📜 The systematic name for this species is Ardea cinerea, that being Latin for “Heron, grey” (from cineris, meaning ashes).
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A junco, genus Junco, is a small North American bird. Junco systematics are still confusing after decades of research, with various authors accepting between three and twelve species. Wikipedia
Systematic and moral theology are human efforts to put God’s mystery into words and logical patterns of thought. Thomas Merton did not consider himself such a theologian in any sense. In fact, as he wrote to Ruether in mid-February 1967: “I distrust all academic theology. Only theology born in the crucible of experience is any good” (Mary Tardiff, ed., At Home in the World, 25).
-A focus on truth : Thomas Merton’s uncensored mind / Patrick W. Collins.
Kenya
Numerous documentaries feature wildebeest crossing rivers, with many being eaten by crocodiles or drowning in the attempt.
While having the appearance of a frenzy, recent research has shown a herd of wildebeest possesses what is known as a "swarm intelligence", whereby the animals systematically explore and overcome the obstacle as one.
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Martyred Intellectuals Memorial (Bengali: বুদ্ধিজীবি স্মৃতি সৌধ) is a memorial built for the memory of the martyred intellectuals of Bangladesh Liberation War. The memorial, located at Rayerbazar, Mohammadpur Thana in Dhaka[1], was designed by architect Mostafa Ali Kuddus. During the entire duration of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a large number of teachers, doctors, engineers, poets and writers were systematically massacred by Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, most notably the alleged Islamist militia groups Al-Badr and [Al-Shams (Bangladesh)|[Al-Shams]]. The largest number of assassinations took place on December 14, 1971, only two days before the surrender of Pakistan army to the joint force of Indian army and Mukti bahini.
Closer view of Rayerbazar intellectuals' memorial.
Foundation plaque of the memorial, Mirpur, Dhaka.
In the night of 14 December 1971, over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were rounded up in Dhaka. They were taken blindfolded to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city. Later they were executed en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur. In memory of the martyred intellectuals, December 14 is mourned in Bangladesh as Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibosh ("Day of the Martyred Intellectuals").
Even after the official ending of the war on December 16 there were reports of hostile fire from the armed Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators. In one such incident, notable film-maker Zahir Raihan was killed on January 30, 1972 in Mirpur, allegedly by the armed Beharis of Mirpur.
The number of intellectuals killed is estimated as follows: educationist 991, journalist 13, physician 49, lawyer 42, others (litterateur, artist and engineer) 16.[2]
Noted intellectuals who were killed between March 25 and December 16, 1971 in different parts of the country included Govinda Chandra Dev (Philosopher, Professor at DU), Munier Chowdhury (Litterateur, Dramatist, Professor at DU), Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Anwar Pasha (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Dr. Mohammed Fazle Rabbee (cardiologist), Dr. Alim Chowdhury (ophthalmologist), Shahidullah Kaisar (journalist), Nizamuddin Ahmed (Reporter), Selina Parvin (reporter), Altaf Mahmud (lyricist and musician), Dr. Hobibur Rahman (mathematician, Professor at RU), Dhirendranath Datta (politician), Ranadaprasad Saha (philanthropist), Lt. Col. Moazzem Hossain (ex-soldier), Mamun Mahmood (Police Officer), and many others.
Martyred Intellectuals Memorial (Bengali: বুদ্ধিজীবি স্মৃতি সৌধ) is a memorial built for the memory of the martyred intellectuals of Bangladesh Liberation War. The memorial, located at Rayerbazar, Mohammadpur Thana in Dhaka[1], was designed by architect Md. Jame- Al- Shafi and Farid Uddin Ahmed. During the entire duration of Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a large number of teachers, doctors, engineers, poets and writers were systematically massacred by Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, most notably the alleged Islamist militia groups Al-Badr and [Al-Shams (Bangladesh)|[Al-Shams]]. The largest number of assassinations took place on December 14, 1971, only two days before the surrender of Pakistan army to the joint force of Indian army and Mukti bahini. Closer view of Rayerbazar intellectuals' memorial. Foundation plaque of the memorial, Mirpur, Dhaka.
In the night of 14 December 1971, over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were rounded up in Dhaka. They were taken blindfolded to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city. Later they were executed en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur. In memory of the martyred intellectuals, December 14 is mourned in Bangladesh as Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibosh ("Day of the Martyred Intellectuals").
Even after the official ending of the war on December 16 there were reports of hostile fire from the armed Pakistani soldiers and their collaborators. In one such incident, notable film-maker Zahir Raihan was killed on January 30, 1972 in Mirpur, allegedly by the armed Beharis of Mirpur.
The number of intellectuals killed is estimated as follows: educationist 991, journalist 13, physician 49, lawyer 42, others (litterateur, artist and engineer) 16.[2]
Noted intellectuals who were killed between March 25 and December 16, 1971 in different parts of the country included Govinda Chandra Dev (Philosopher, Professor at DU), Munier Chowdhury (Litterateur, Dramatist, Professor at DU), Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Anwar Pasha (Litterateur, Professor at DU), Dr. Mohammed Fazle Rabbee (cardiologist), Dr. Alim Chowdhury (ophthalmologist), Shahidullah Kaisar (journalist), Nizamuddin Ahmed (Reporter), Selina Parvin (reporter), Altaf Mahmud (lyricist and musician), Dr. Hobibur Rahman (mathematician, Professor at RU), Dhirendranath Datta (politician), Ranadaprasad Saha (philanthropist), Lt. Col. Moazzem Hossain (ex-soldier), Mamun Mahmood (Police Officer), and many other
For four hours I watched the systematic tormenting of this great egret chick by its three stronger siblings. By 12:00 the temperature had risen into the high 80s and this fella was in obvious distress.
During the four hours, the mother returned twice to feed them, but he simply didn't have the strength. And when he did attempt to partake in the food, his fellow chicks promptly put him down. It was hard to watch, but this is how nature culls out the weak.
I called the Egret & Heron rescue number listed on the poster close to the rookery and left a message that one of the great egret chicks was probably not going to survive the day. They called back and left a message saying that he was probably just suffering some signs of the heat and would be OK. I called them back and reiterated, as you can see in these photos, that this bird was in distress and would not last long. Hopefully, they can rescue him.
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Pic de la Casamanya (R) & Estanyo (L). Andorra mountain landscape. View from Coll de la Botella, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees
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It’s fun to take the train in Washington. WMATA is very organized and systematic. The stations are another story though; the architecture and interior design is the same in every single one of them.
I like Chicago and Toronto style more I guess. Each station has its own characteristic. Sometimes, you can tell about the neighborhood without even getting off the train. Happy Sunday friends, thank you for your visit :)))
If, as they say, an Englishman’s home is his castle, then William Herbert’s Raglan is the Welshman’s equivalent.
Everything’s great about this place, from its great tower, which evokes memories of earlier fortresses like Caernarfon, to the great gatehouse, which ‘wows’ the visitor just as its owner intended.
Built for show rather than with battle in mind, it still held off Oliver Cromwell’s forces for thirteen weeks in one of the last sieges of the Civil War. The castle was eventually taken and was systematically destroyed by parliament. Enough remains to still impress.
Raglan was begun in the 1430s, rather late in the day for castle building. Unfashionably late by some 150 years! Despite this, mod cons such as massive mullioned windows brought the design bang up-to-date, bathing rooms in luxurious light. The oriel window, a bay to end all bay windows, is one of Raglan’s defining features.
It lit up the high table at the dais end of the hall. Raglan also boasted a long gallery, the very height of fashionable living in the Tudor period.
This is only part of a huge number of just "hatched" Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillars. They will move around as a group until they get larger, systematically skeletonizing the milkweed leaves.
Vall d'Incles & Riu d'Incles. Incles, Canillo parroquia, Vall d'Orient, Andorra, Pyrenees
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Coll de la Botella, Pal, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra
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台南的黃金雨 - 阿勃勒 / 古城無事華平路 - 新厦聚落黃花道
The golden rain of the Tainan - Cassia fistula / Nothing to do in the ancient city of Huaping Road - New Buildings Settled on Yellow flowers Road
La lluvia de oro de la Tainan - fístula de la casia / Nada que hacer en la antigua ciudad de Huaping Road - Nuevos edificios asentados en Yellow Flowers Road
台南の黄金の雨 - 阿勃は彫ります / 古都華平路には何もすることがない - 黄華路に新しい建物が建つ
Der goldene Regen des Tainans - Kassiefistel / In der antiken Stadt Huaping Road gibt es nichts zu tun - neue Gebäude wurden an der Yellow Flowers Road angesiedelt
La pluie d'or de la Tainan - Cassia fistule / Rien à faire dans l'ancienne ville de Huaping Road - New Buildings Settled on Yellow flowers Road
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
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名稱:阿勃勒、波斯皂莢
學名:Cassia fistula
科別:蘇木科
別名:黃金雨、豬腸豆、臘腸樹、牛角樹
原產地:印度
Name: Abo forces, the Persian Chinese honey locust
systematic name: Cassia the fistula
branch leaves: Sappan caesalpinia
branch alias: Gold rain, pig intestines bean, purging cassia, cow horn beam
source area: India
Melody 曲:JAPAN / Words 詞:Sheesen / Singing : Sheesen
{ 夢旅人 1990 Dream Traveler 1990 }
家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
The sunset Shineing to the Taiwan at once
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
Sometimes I think about the systematic slaughter of these magnificent animals, partlally from greed and partially as a strategy of the U.S. Cavalry to force the plains Indians into submission. It makes me nauseous. Here is an account of buffalo hunting distilled to its essence.
"“It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them, laid up in a sag on some rise with the dead animals scattered over the grounds and the herd beginning to mill and the rifle barrel so hot the wiping patches sizzled in the bore and the animals by the thousands and the tens of thousands and the hides pegged out over actual square miles of ground the teams of skinners spelling one another around the clock and the shooting and shooting weeks and months till the bore shot slick and the stock shot loose at the tang and their shoulders were yellow and blue to the elbow and the tandem wagons groaned away over the prairie twenty and twenty-two ox teams and the flint hides by the hundred ton and the meat rotting on the ground and the air whining with flies and the buzzards and ravens and the night a horror of snarling and feeding with the wolves half-crazed and wallowing in the carrion." ...Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Hiking north Andorra: Serra de la Casamanya & Serra de Sauvata, Canillo, Vall d'Orient, Andorra, Pyrenees
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Sparrows in a tree. Small songbirds have been a rarity in China following the Great Sparrow Campaign (打麻雀运动) aka Kill a Sparrow Campaign (消灭麻雀运动), where the systematic extermination of sparrows and other small songbirds led to an upset of the ecological balance. This campaign was started in the late 1950s as part of the "Great Leap Forward" and was officially abandoned only in the early 21st century.
Since that campaign was abandoned, the birds begun to proliferate and nowadays can be seen everywhere again.
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Rubbish weather outside so have had to resort to testing the new macro set-up in the house. Not sure why I bought a macro lens at the end of bug season, but at least I got a good price on ebay!
I am a big fan of the Laowa manual lenses and managed to get this one at a bargain price - it also came with the ring light, powerbank and focus rail.
I have had the Canon MP-E 65mm previously - and the results (when you focus stack) are amazing, but a lot of pallaver - anyway thought I could give it another go.
This should allow adjustment of orientation in 8 directions.
For anyone interested the gear is:
Canon EOS R5
Laowa Laowa 25mm f2.8 2x‑5x Ultra Macro lens (shown at shortest length)
Laowa LED ring light with Hahnel powerbank
Canon RS-80N3 cable release
Novoflex PF Klammer (holder the bug - but meant to gently hold a leaf) attached to flexi-arm and clamp on the tripod leg
Generic (iShoot) 4 way macro head
Benro GD3WH geared heard (tilt, shift and rotation)
BENRO GDHAD1 Adaptor for GD3WH
Benro geared column (not shown but allows fine tuning of height as well rather than adjusting thelegs)
Benro Combination tripod (systematic and geared column options)
Atelier de la Mécanique
Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles 2016
„Systematically open?“ – Walead Beshty, Elad Lassry, Zanele Muholi, Collier Schorr
Coll de Nargo, Alt Urgell , Catalunya Nord
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psychosocial therapies are part of the standard management of schizophrenic illnesses, but have not been subjected to systematic evaluation and are therefore not included in this guideline. This does not imply that they are not essential components of good practice.
The remainder of this section describes the evidence for the effectiveness of Education Programmes, Family Interventions, and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the management of schizophrenia. Section 3 provides recommendations for the application of these interventions in clinical practice, according to the phase of the illness.
Education programmes
Education Programmes are directed at either patients or carers/family members and have several aims. Improvement in knowledge of schizophrenia and its course and in compliance with treatment has been shown. There is also evidence of greater satisfaction with services provided. Some programmes go beyond the provision of information and take an educational approach to skills training or problem solving.
Education Programmes for patients may be undertaken in individual or in group settings. Simple information-giving is less effective than interactive sessions. The focus includes giving information about the course and management of the illness, including the importance of compliance with medication and the management of stress.
Providing carers and family members with information on the likely course of the illness, the treatments available, the importance of compliance and the services available is an essential element of good practice It may be undertaken as part of a Family Intervention programme
Specific techniques, e.g. use of homework or video, have not been shown to improve the assimilation of information, but a group setting has advantages
Family interventions
The aims of 'Family Intervention' include reduction of frequency of relapse into illness and reduction of hospital admissions, reduction in the burden of care on families and carers, and improvement in compliance with medication.
Some Family Intervention Programmes have targeted families where there are high levels of criticism, hostility and over-involvement. 'High expressed emotion' is a measure of these features and programmes which reduce this or reduce the amount of 'face to face' contact between the patient and family members have been shown to reduce the frequency of relapse. However, the measurement of expressed emotion is a research technique which is not practical for everyday use. Family Intervention Programmes which are not derived from this theoretical background have been shown to be effective.
Most intervention strategies contain more than one technique. Separating and defining the effects of the components of an intervention strategy is not possible at present as few studies examine the effect of a single technique and only a general description of interventions used in research studies is usually given. However, a number of practice guides have been published which give detailed descriptions of the techniques employed in some studies. Family Intervention has been shown to be effective with some variation in the components of the programme, but family sessions to address the problems identified in the analysis may not be effective if the patient is not included. Social skills training and vocational rehabilitation were included in some studies. These are not covered as separate interventions in the guideline.
Cognitive behaviour therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis is a modification of standard cognitive behavioural therapy. The aim is to modify symptoms (e.g. delusions, hallucinations) or the consequences of the symptoms which may be cognitive, emotional, physiological or behavioural. The treatment programme is intensive (involving about 20 hours of individual treatment) and based on an individually tailored formulation which provides an explanation of the development, maintenance and exacerbation of symptoms and of pre-morbid mood, interpersonal and behavioural difficulties.
There is now good evidence that treatment resistant symptoms (delusions, hallucinations) can be substantially reduced in a significant proportion of those who complete therapy. It is not yet clear who is most likely to benefit from treatment and many patients may be unwilling to participate. The treatment is well tolerated. However, reduction of symptoms has not been shown to lead to significant social or lifestyle improvements.
A combination of the following techniques has been shown to be most effective in lessening symptoms of psychosis resistant to other forms of treatment:
◦enhancement of cognitive behavioural coping strategies5
◦developing a rationale to explain symptoms28◦realistic goal setting
◦modification of delusional beliefs29◦modification of dysfunctional assumptions.
A number of these techniques are a refinement of normal good practice using a systematic approach.
'Early Intervention Studies' have aimed to identify prodromal symptoms or the 'signature' preceding relapse. The approach is not a form of cognitive therapy, but early intervention with medication or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy may be facilitated